A dramatic portrait of the adventurer Shelby Bly at sunset in the desert.

I created this promotional artwork for my Shelby Bly Project which is a project to create an original graphic novel that I will illustrate based on a story that I have written. I briefly cancelled the project last year but have since reconsidered and have resumed work on the graphic novel. It is currently still in pre-production but it getting very close to production status. Check out the website for more information. I created this artwork to celebrate my resuming work on the project.

I created my own IBL based light setup for this piece using the wonderful resource that is Colm’s Render Studio 2014 for Poser. The setting is a combination of a terrain set I bought at Renderosity and Terradome 2 that I adjusted so that the sand textures would match. I added the lens flare in postwork. I also enhanced the photo with some filters and HDR actions in postwork and then added a thin border plus a texture overlay.

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